Who was the best classical composer?

Steve Reich

Ligeti

La Monte Young

Harry Partch

Julius Eastman

Just Charles and Cello in the Romantic Chord is his best work

From CHICAGO to NEW YOOOORKK

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I don't know about best but Chopin is my favorite.

>t. listens to classical two weeks

>skills and knowledge
probably JSBach, MENSA org has speculated his intelligence to be otherworldly.

>inspiration and all around music mastermind
probably Mozart, mastered each end every genre of his time and could compose at any circumstance and time/place and commit it to score whenever he wanted without a lost note

>higuest and deepest artworks
probably Beethoven, tho he used to struggle a LOT to finish those masterpieces

Thy're the Holy Trinity for a reason

Petzold

>classical
How about romantic?
Tchaikovsky and Gustav Holst were pretty good

Beethoven unironically

yep

Danny Elfman

Same. Chopin takes me away to another world when I listen to him

>and could compose at any circumstance
Apparently not since he died before finishing Requiem

Nah, I just listen to Wendy rarely. Not a huge fan of classical music, but I love synthesizers to death

Mozart, but my personal favorite is undoubtedly Tchaikovsky

>Mozart
>the best

armchair classical listeners get out

I mean it's not the best piece of music, but Beethoven's Pastoral is the one that speaks to me the most. I'm very blase about most things in life but that symphony is something I truly consider beautiful.

Mozart was basically the Katy Perry of his time.

Beethoven = normie
Mozart = plebian
JSB = patrician

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That may not have been him.

Petzold = Ascended

>Passacaglia and fugue in bait minor
>BWV 4206572

Great post.
Bach is my favorite because I am REALLY autistic.

FUCKING BASED BEETHOVEN ofc

Bach is the true patrician
>A french klavier player wanted to challenge Bach to an improvisation contest
>Fox only, no musical score, final destination
>Walks into town
>Asks about Bach
>Announces the time and place of the challenge
>Sneaks over to the church to size up the competition
>Bach does his hand warmup
>Probably the opening of some toccata(guess)
>Frenchman leaves
>Is never seen or heard from again
>Bach shows up to 1v1 improvisation contest
>French surrender?
>NoSurprise.jpg
>Bach just improvises on the keyboard for a few hours, with no opponents, he probably stopped when the women were so wet is became a flooding hazard

More CHAD Bach stories coming up.

Classical period: Beethoven
Common practice in general: Bach

>Brahms > Wagner
Only valid one. Schubert is great but not better-than-Ludwig great.

>How about romantic?
FAURE
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Dvorak and Tsaikovsky

This CHAD BACH story goes out to you Prussiaboos out there
>Fredrick the great really likes music
>Asks Bach to improvise a fugue based on a simple subject
>Bach does a three part fugue off the top of his head
>Freddy G wants him to do a six part fugue
>Does a six part fugue, from a different subject off the top of his head.
>"Cn u plz do a six part of my theme?"
>Bach writes a six part fugue, ends up becoming a musical masterpiece
>From nytimes "the six-voice ricercare is among the greatest achievements of Western European civilization"
nytimes.com/1999/04/18/magazine/best-piano-composition-six-parts-genius.html

The people of Bach's time thought music should be simple and Bach's genius intricacy and complexity was too much girth for their virgin pussies, that's why he didn't deliberately go full power for every piece and his greatest musical masterpieces are almost written by accident, people kept telling him to dumb it down.

ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF CHAD BACH, CAN BACH KEK SOMEBODY'S ARIA AND ACCIDENTALLY WRITE ONE OF THE GREATEST MUSICAL MASTERPIECES?

Chad Bach Z episode 3
>Some guy writes an aria
>Bach writes 30 variations of it to help people practice keyboard
>From the title(pic related) "Composed for connoisseurs, for the refreshment of their spirits" Fedora over 9000
>Turns out the variations are accidentally one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time
>Get cucked, goldberg, GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
>My Aria's variator/my wife's son

Final episode of planet of the chad bach apes, Z, revenge of the sith.
>Bach loves practicing l33t keyboard skillz
>But faggots don't know how to properly tune a klavier
>So Bach writes a prelude and fugue in every key so he can go on thot patrol for klavier tuning, and to teach people how to be as l33t on the keyboard as himself
>The Well Tempered Klavier
>Literally made for tuning and practice
>Becomes one of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time.
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS.
HE CAN'T BE STOPPED.

This will probably give me an seizure.
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Interesting read, thanks.

Schoenberg
Webern

yes

imagine getting your dick cut but still becoming the best lover of his time

If we're talking classical as in the genre; Johan Sebastian Bach. No matter what your answer, Bach is your favorite composer's favorite composer.

If we're talking the actual classical period; Haydn

Josquin des Prez

Don't forget

>Conducting a piece for orchestra in front of whole congregation
>Probably another god-tier cantata
>Bassoon part is not exactly virtuosic, but with some fairly hard parts
>Bassoonist absolutely fumbles the part
>Comes up to Bach in the street and accosts him about the difficulty of the part - "You made me luk bad you fookin muppet! (but in olde German)"
>Bach says the bassoonist played like a bleating goat or somesuch
>A scuffle breaks out between the composer and the bassoonist
>Bach Draws his rapier (those were the days when everyone wore rapiers)
>Bach defeats Bassoonist with his rapier

True story.

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This, with Modest Mussorsky as a close second.

MussorGsky was an uneducated drunk. Not really much of a composer. Certainly not the best or even in the top 50.

you, sir, have decent taste. I approve

kek

Dvorak and Tchaikovsky obviously.

Shnittke

imagine being so contrarian you claim Mozart was shit

>literally wrote a piece about licking ass

t. never shitposted

Absolutely right

Edward Elgar.

Jack White produced a rendition of "Lich Mich Im Arsch" by Insane Clown Posse. In case you were unaware, now you aren't.

I assume you the mean from Baroque to modern music, not just the classical period. its too difficult to say since its very subjective but I think Beethoven would be the most objective pick as far as innovation and just judging his works on their own. imo his 32 piano sonatas are not just the best sonatas written but the best works written for piano, his symphonies are of course the best and lets not forget about his beautiful chamber music youtube.com/watch?v=JeeFd0vnP-E

Bach of course is a also a high contender, so is Wagner. Mozart was great but not the most revolutionary.

My personal favorite is Schubert although I couldn't argue that he was objectively the greatest youtube.com/watch?v=KW2pL2uQzqM

I think I like Schubert's chamber music the best but Ludwig carves out a special place with his Gross Fugue.

youtube.com/watch?v=13ygvpIg-S0

>My personal favorite is Schubert
Top taste right there.

Metallica

If we are talking strictly classical, Tchaikovsky is a personal favorite. If classical inspired artists are allowed, Scott Joplin. I do think this would be a good question for /mu/'s classical music general. They sometimes have some good stuff on there

Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf is a masterpiece
youtu.be/g1spGQQg0FA

How come the British (and Irish come to think of it) never churned out any well known great composers, yet dominated art and literature?

Were Bongs just laying low until the 1960s?

Does Handel count?

no, he was German

But he wrote in English and did most of his works in Britain. Seems a little unfair desu

But outside of that idk. Britain seemed more in favor of science, literature, and intellectual pursuits rather than music at the time. Don't know why that is.

The only classical Irish composer I can think of is John Field, who invented the nocturne, wrote some of the most beautiful piano music and inspired many piano composers of the 19th century(mainly Chopin, although I think Field is far superior to him) youtube.com/watch?v=MPFv7FyuSlI

how ever at least they have great traditional music as well so they at least have some excuse to be deficient in the classical scene youtube.com/watch?v=8pyGVCUufJU

the anglo however has nothing

The only well known British composer that springs to mind is Holst.

Beethoven and honorable mention for Schubert.
>Fuck a whore.
>Get an STD.
>Get depression and compose brilliant music.
>Die.

Truly the best way to live

Salieri

And Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten and Purcell

damn that Field music is relaxing

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Can you imagine how absolutely insane it must have been for people back then to hear the classical music we know now for the first time? The idea of not having music available anywhere at anytime, maybe some folk tunes or simple melodies on a day to day basis. But to hear a (now) classical piece from any composer in that time would've been a mindblowing experience. Even a "simple" tune like Rondo alla Turca. I can't imagine anything nowadays that could have the same impact as that

British music peaked around 1550.
John Taverner, Dunstable, Fayrfax, Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd, etc.
British music was at the top of the world for a brief time in the late 1400s, after the burgundian school had gone out of fashion, but before Italians and Spaniards took over

Do people actually like Mozart's works? Its just nice sounding chords over and over with no symbolism at all. Turkish march is a fine example of this, you never even think that its a march nor Turkish.

>Turkish march is a fine example of this
that's a completely minor movement in a fairly minor piece -a piano sonata-.

Go listen to the last symphony finale with a 5 voices fugue that's so good you completely forget it's fugue form because it transcends it.
Mozart was GOAT